Most of the ERC Sinotype team will be away on field trips to China for their individual projects during this period/ La plupart de l’équipe Sinotype de l’ERC sera en mission en Chine lors des mois d’avril et de mai.

The conference will examine issues in cognition, the Whorfian Hypothesis and language complexity from a synchronic description and a hitherto uncharted diachronic account of the linguistic as well as conceptual metaphors for PAST and FUTURE. Currently, how do Chinese people conceptualize the past and the future? In the past, how did Chinese people conceptualize the past and future? What is the dominant metaphor for PAST and FUTURE in the Chinese language presently and in the past? In what way do answers to these questions shed light on complexity?

Within the framework of the 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics (25-SCL), organized under the auspices of the Nordic Association of Linguists (NAL), to take place at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, May 13–15, 2013, we intend to hold a workshop on functionally motivated work in understanding the cross linguistic behaviour of the verbs GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE and their argument realisation in various syntactic constructions.
The purpose of the workshop is to examine and discuss recent and current work in the use of functional, cognitive and constructional approaches to understanding the cross linguistic behaviour of the verbs GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE. Contributions that offer a treatment of one or more of these verbs are very welcome!

The workshop will address the following main topics and research issues with respect to understanding the cross linguistic behaviour of the verbs GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE:
· Mapping at the semantic-syntactic interface across these verbs
· The argument structure of GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE verbs
· The lexical semantics and event structure of GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE verbs
· Argument realisation of GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE verbs in morphosyntax
· The encoding of the significant thematic roles in these 3place syntactic constructions
· Symmetries and asymmetries in the encoding of arguments in constructions using GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE verbs
· Grammaticalisation with GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE
· GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE in a constructional perspective
· Information structure in constructions with GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE
The organisers of this workshop are a European group of linguists and computational linguists and computer scientists who have collaborated at various Societas Linguistica Europaea workshops and in the publication of the special issue of Linguistics (2012: 50-6) on GET verbs in European languages. The selection of GET verbs as a research topic was motivated in several ways and explained by their high frequency, their formal and semantic complexity, their high variability in cross linguistic comparisons and their susceptibility to semantic extension and to grammaticalization. There is already a substantial body of research on GIVE verbs, the verbal converses of GET verbs (Newman 1996 and Newman 1998).
The aim of the workshop is to draw a comprehensive, representative and detailed picture of the vast polysemy, multifunctionality and dynamics of GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE verbs across languages. As these are highly dynamic verbs, their semantic and grammatical changes as well as their synchronic variation offer many research opportunities. However, we need to understand the behaviours and also syntactic construction patterns of these verbs in considerably more detail.

abstracts can be submitted through Easy Abstracts (http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/25scl2013)
no later than November 1st.
References
Diedrichsen, Elke. 2012. What you give is what you GET? On reanalysis, semantic extension, and functional motivation with the German bekommen-passive construction. In Lenz, Alexandra N. and Gudrun Rawoens. The Art of Getting: GET verbs in European languages from a synchronic and diachronic point of view. Special issue of Linguistics. 50-6.
Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan. 2012. Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective (Typological Studies in Language). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Lenz, Alexandra N. and Gudrun Rawoens. 2012. The Art of Getting: GET verbs in European languages from a synchronic and diachronic point of view. Special issue of Linguistics. 50-6.
Mukherjee, Joybrato (2005): English Ditransitive Verbs. Aspects of Theory, Description and a Usage-based Model. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
Newman, John (1996): Give: A Cognitive Linguistic Study. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter (Cognitive Linguistics Research. 7).
Newman, John (ed.) (1998): The Linguistics of Giving. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins (Typological Studies in Language. 36).
Nolan, Brian. 2012. The GET constructions of Modern Irish and Irish English: GET-passive and GET-recipient variations. In Lenz, Alexandra N. and Gudrun Rawoens. The Art of Getting: GET verbs in European languages from a synchronic and diachronic point of view. Special issue of Linguistics. 50-6.
Tragel, Ilona and Külli Habicht. 2012. Grammaticalization of the Estonian saama ‘get’. In Lenz, Alexandra N. and Gudrun Rawoens. The Art of Getting: GET verbs in European languages from a synchronic and diachronic point of view. Special issue of Linguistics. 50-6.
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CALL FOR PAPERS for IACL-21

National Taiwan Normal University

June 7 – 9, 2013

Abstracts are invited for talks on any fields of Chinese linguistics or linguistic studies of languages in China. Each talk will be 15 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author.

Chappell, Hilary. In press. Say in Sinitic: from verbum dicendi to attitudinal discourse marker. In Jan Nuyts and Johan van der Auwera (eds.) Proceedings of the International conference on Grammaticalization and Intersubjectification, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels, November 2010.

de Sousa, Hilário. In press. 南宁上尧平话「个 kə55」用法初探 [First look into the functions of 个 kə55 in Nanning Shangyao Pinghua]. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Academic Conference on the Grammar of Chinese Dialects. Shanghai: Shanghai University.

In the framework of the ERC project « The hybrid syntactic typology of Sinitic languages » and the research programme of Team 1, CRLAO “Typologie et diachronie des langues sino-tibétaines en Asie orientale”, you are cordially invited to the following seminars:

欧盟科研理事会 SINOTYPE 研究项目诚邀您参加以下的研讨会：

Venue 地点:

Seminars will be held at 4, rue Küss 75013 Paris.

研究进展报告会将于巴黎十三区4 rue Küss举行。

Time 时间: 16:00 – 18:00

Thursday 20 September 2012

Weirong CHEN 陈伟蓉

“Phonological reduction and grammaticalization”

Tuesday 25 September 2012

XuPing LI 李旭平 “Coordination and subordination in Yichun Gan”

Tuesday 2 October 2012

Jian WANG 王键:

“How to ask for WHO without who: A typological study of interrogative words in Sinitic languages”

The aim of this workshop is to stimulate cross-fertilization of research efforts on the large number of little-explored Sino-Tibetan languages and dialects spoken in Sichuan and abutting areas. To what extent do features shared by several languages of the area reflect deeply entrenched borrowings? To what extent do they constitute retentions? These and
other intriguing questions prompted researchers at the Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica to organize in 2008 a workshop dedicated specifically to Tibeto-Burman Languages of Sichuan<http://typology.ling.sinica.edu.tw/old_201106/TB_of_Sichuan_eng>.

A second edition <http://ccl.pku.edu.cn/zmy/> of the workshop was hosted by the Center for Chinese Linguistics of Peking University in 2010, with an emphasis on “Principles and Practices of Reconstruction”. This edition’s special focus is on “Sino-Tibetan Languages of Sichuan in their Areal Context”: in addition to studies of languages of Sichuan proper, we
encourage submissions about Sino-Tibetan languages of areas that border on Sichuan. The conference will also include a panel on Rgyalrong and Kiranti comparative morphosyntax.

Abstracts are invited on topics that include descriptions of phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, historical-comparative linguistics, typology, and field reports on recently investigated languages.

Abstract submission deadline: Feb. 28th, 2013. (Abstract submission will be opened as from from September 1st, 2012.)
Notification of acceptance: April 1st, 2013.